[Healeys] Longbridge Parts Needed

[Alan Seigrist]

My A90 has a door lock only on the drivers side.  Doesn't seem to keep
criminals out of the car but I suppose in gentler times criminals never
entered the passenger door....

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
'64 BJ8


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Joe and Lenore Armour <
sebring at illawarra.hotkey.net.au> wrote:

> Quinn, Patrick wrote:
>
>  G'day Rich
>>
>> The lockable handle was also fitted to driver's side front door of the
>> Jowett
>> Javelin. (It's has the lever facing towards the rear.)
>>
>>
> I once had the need to replace my lockable BN.4 doorhandle and sourced a
> Javlin handle on  the advice of the wise ones BUT there arte minor
> differences. The main one being that the rear facing end of the Javelin
> handle is cut off at a single 45 degree angle, unlike the Healey handles
> which have an angled end from top & bottom meeting at the long point in the
> middle of the handle. My solution in 1968  when bright bits were not
> available in Australia was to hand file one from a solid, square brass bar.
>  NOT BLOODY EASY and not to be recommended, but at the time!!!!
>
> It was worth it in the end because when I was trading it in on another car
> the then Australian Touring Champion ( GTA Mustang) offered me an extra $100
> bucks because the door locked.  He had previously owned a black 100
>
> Joe